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Are you telling me that all games are released AND LEFT at the level of quality of KotOR2?

You DO realise that T3 had a built in workbench, don't you? in k1 you have side-quests where you look for bastila's mother, mission's brother, carth's son, juhani's grandpa and so on... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Nice old chap, that tiger ...

Only if "Limited Edition" implies the quality. "

That's pretty good, actually. Certainly, there were not enough uses of attributes and powers in dialogue (what's the point in having them if they don't do anything?) BTW, this thread will be locked shortly, because it is ANOTHER "sequel thread". I would advise you to add your comments to the KotOR 3 Ideas and suggestions threads.

... And the quality of the release.

What a lovely story! Did you make that up all on your own?

You get what you pay for ...

I am well aware of that. I was living in Viet Nam when SARS was first identified in Hanoi, and I remember the daily WHO advisories and phone calls from friends and family asking if I was dead yet. Avian Flu had already been around (as a minor issue) for a while, but never generated the public alarm that SARS did. [2]I was merely suggesting that lessons learned from the fight against one might be usefully applied to the other. [3]I think they are more capable of dealing with an outbreak of Avian Flu now than before the foot-and-mouth crisis. I'm primarily referring to an outbreak within the bird population. Should it spread to humans, the health service would be in the front line, and yes, I do have a great deal of faith in the NHS' ability to handle a large-scale national emergency, despite short-sighted cost cutting exercises by successive Conservative and Labour governments. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1. Cure for Bird 'Flu " (Ah, I see what my old grey cells have recalled is that the SARS was the fastest ever genomic sequencing (less than a day); any comments as to the putative cure may not be as correct as one initially thought.) " the first Canadian press release and SARS genomic sequencing update 11 Jul, 2003. A little background: What's all the fuss about? story so far How to contain it: How to stop it As for how the governments are responding to the challenge, here is the WHO recommendation The future: map ALL 'flu genomes 2. Again, I agree that lessons CAN BE learned; and, moreover, SHOULD BE learned; I just disagree with you about whether this is the case. 3. Sure, I would expect that the disposal of the entire bird population of the UK is well within the government's power (give or take all the wildfowl, which would be perfect carriers and prohibited from inclusion by rabid twitchers). I thought you were talking about a human bird 'flu epidemic. The only thing that saved the world in 2004 was that the strain wasn't very virulent. If it spread as fast as a normal cold, then we'd all be dead by now.

And so it begins ...

Because your moves of: ENGLAND F MAO-Bre (ENG) F Nor H were countered by: FRANCE F Por-MAO F Bre S F Por-MAO RUSSIA F StP (nc)-Nwy F Swe S F StP (nc)-Nwy So your pieces were each attacked two-to-one.

This is 100% accurate and precise, for the Gregorian year 2005 ACE.

Hades is a turncoat! He's become an XBox fanboy! (Maybe he's discovered the Fountain of Youth, and is regressing to his childhood ....)

*City & Guilds serves writ to WHITETEETH*

The sad thing is I don't think there is enough difference in the game details to tell ...

No one here but us chickens ...

Ah, a moral dimension to the RPG? (It'll never sell.) There was a game released last year, iirc, that was just a model of RL. The premise of the game was that you entered each character, and the game randomly selected who, what and where, based on actual statistics. The reviewer, for example, had a character from the developing world (naturally, as the odds are higher); she died early due to childbirth, or something similar; half her family died due to the oppressive poverty and related illnesses (and lack of medicines). I think it's even free to play (or a small donation is requested). Bit of a downer, though: it'd never sell ...

They did? I'm fairly sure that's not the case, or at least not a very effective vaccine. The main lessons I took away from SARS was the importance of governments co-operating with the WHO and being honest. I'm glad I was in Viet Nam and not China/Hongkong at the time - the Chinese government tried to pretend it wasn't happening, then there was a panic because nobody believed them any more. The Vietnamese government told the truth and wasn't too proud to ask for international help. Any country which is overly-obsessed with a narrow national security agenda is potentially a threat to its neighbours because it could try to cover up a new epidemic and lose the chance of nipping it in the bud. Edit: (source=Daily Telegraph) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 1. Yes, they did. Otherwise, SARS would have circled the globe fifty times over, by now, rather than the sixty-odd people that died in Canada and a few elsewhere outside Asia. SARS is not the Bird 'Flu that is of concern now; they are two different strains. 2. I remember watching a moot UN exercise (not with the actual diplomats to the UN, but the EU governments' Health politicians, iirc). They started by having an epidemic in Asia, then they tracked the spread into Europe; matching against the stocks of 'flu immunisations. What they found was, as one might expect, a large game of diplomacy: those that had sufficient stock, even if they were not immediately affected, kept their stocks (to the detriment of those who had been infected first and had no stocks, like Turkey) and sat back to keep their own countries "safe", thus preventling the early isolation and containment of the epidemic. I find your faith in the machineries of government at one touching and disturbing: if you think the UK government is in any way more capable of managing a health crisis, then I you are an optimist against evidence. (The UK can't even contain the usual Winter epidemics that only effect the aged and infirm.) That's a big chance you're taking with your life, believing in fate to that extent. I don't know about you, but fatalism seems to be a BIG RISK. How can you be so sure that everything is pre-ordained? If you take that attitude, you may as well not look when crossing the road ...

Both my fellow players are spot-on in their analyses. Sorry about all the orders ... :D

You didn't have flying pigs in your game?

I don't think it is strictly necessary to be able to wander into people's homes. Why? What's the point? For realism? Getting a tooth drilled is realistic, but I don't particularly want to do it in a game. Games are also meant to be abstracted from reality, so that all the boring stuff is skipped over (like healing over time, or eating, for example). There needs to be a better reason to include a feature, other than it is "real". I agree open spaces are a great idea, but I didn't see the point in all the little houses with their f

I've seen them lurking, and answer on occassion (not much, though): I guess they are either: too busy to post, or not allowed to post, or not interested in posting. Let's hope it's door number ONE. :D

Pity you can't do it to all of them ... (after all, they aren't needed).

Nah, they'd have to drown them in cooking oil, first ...

Darth Ed D'Oh ? If he's smart he's abandoned his former id and started afresh. Of course, as soon as he posts, we'll all know who he is ...

Purple and Green should never be seen, excepting with something in between.